If science is the process of learning how nature works, what happens when we venture into territory nature apparently hasn’t explored yet?Read more…
Science in Review: The Linguistic Match Game
[W]e learn languages so easily because languages themselves have evolved to be easy to learn.Read more…
Science Corner: Health on the Range
In a week when national health care legislation is being substantially revised comes a report on health disparities between rural and urban Americans.Read more…
Science Corner: One Man’s CO2
We can turn this rising smoke into rising cookies.Read more…
Science Corner: Raising and Razing Babel
While not all of us can make policy decisions for major academic publications, we likely still have opportunities to think about how to communicate with scholars and students who speak other languages.Read more…
Science in Review: Looking Back at 2016
Here are some of the standout moments from the year 2016 in the realm of science and the intersection of science and faith.Read more…
Science Corner: His Mother’s Son
[Jesus] would have had over 99% of his DNA in common with both Mary and Joseph — and also you and me and everyone you know.Read more…
Science Corner: H2O Christmas Tree
At Christmas, God’s love flowed into the world in a new way.Read more…
Science Corner: All Signs Point to Nihonium
The discovery of nihonium, moscovium and the others was long awaited, their arrival prefigured by the creation of the [periodic] table nearly 150 years ago.Read more…
Science Corner: Cutting the String on Yo-yo Dieting
We may want progress to steadily ratchet towards whatever goal we have in mind, but not all elements of a system change at the same pace.Read more…
Science in Review: Symbols and Symbiotes
I’m sympathetic to the desire for greater harmony, understanding, and cooperation, but I’m not convinced the metaphor of healing will actually get us there.Read more…
Science Corner: Arithmophobia & Other Language Barriers
It’s like reading a foreign language without ever acquiring a significant vocabulary; you never stop needing to look up terms in the dictionary.Read more…
Science in Review: A Strange Prescription for Reconciling Faith & Science
If we are at the place where the natural and the supernatural meet, it is a place of fruitful collaboration, not strident conflict.Read more…
Is God Relevant in an Age of Science? (STEAM Grant Series November Question)
Folks who see faith and science as conflicted are at least still engaged, even if it’s to further prosecute that conflict. Engaging folks on a topic they find irrelevant is much trickier.Read more…
Science Corner: Mail to the Chief
… let’s just say I would have liked to replace a few of the debate questions to learn more of what the candidates are thinking about climate change or gene editing.Read more…
Science Corner: Dr. Internet, MD
I’ve consulted Dr. Internet myself, so I figured maybe you have too and you’d want to know about the good doctor’s performance.Read more…
Science Corner: Science & Faith Around the World
Helpfully, a new study has been published which surveyed scientists from 8 countries around the world, asking them about their views of religion.Read more…
Science Corner: We Probably Think This World Is About Us
Visiting that imaginary place allows you to see that Newton’s laws actually do apply to our world and reveals those inanimate forces our minds find difficult to see.Read more…
Science in Review: The Unknown is Great!
Science is looking closely at all sorts of things you probably don’t know about! — Lily GroshRead more…
Science Corner: Who’s Wearing You?
Personally, I think the self can be real even if it is complicated; life is equally hard to define but the state of living is still useful to distinguish from alternatives.Read more…
Science Corner: It’s a Micro, Micro, Micro, Micro World
Speaking of resistance, this cool video illustrates just how quickly (12 days!) bacteria can circumvent our attempts to kill them.Read more…
Science Corner: Down the Rabbit-Wormhole
Recently, I read an intriguing proposal addressing precisely this tension in describing God as both engaged with and separate from his creation.Read more…
Science in Review: It Ain’t Rocket Science
People who might otherwise be complaining about an extra 10 minutes added to their commute were suddenly contemplating a journey that would take longer than all of recorded human history.Read more…
Science Corner: Governing By Osmosis
Diffusion is a more generic and so perhaps more appropriate concept to be used analogically, which is exactly the approach used for modeling how health policies spread through society.Read more…